Father. Podcaster @selfhostedshow podcast. Tailscalar.
- My Landing Page - https://alex.ktz.me
- Blog - https://blog.ktz.me
- Perfect Media Server - https://perfectmediaserver.com
- YouTube - https://youtube.com/@ktzsystems
Alex Kretzschmar has hosted 120 Episodes.
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55: Home Assistant Turns Amber
October 8th, 2021 | 47 mins 37 secs
aeotec smart switch 7, amber, aself-hosting podcast, energy metering, energy monitoring, gimme-iphotos, history stats, home assistant, icloud photo backup, jupiter broadcasting, kwh, migrate to z-wave js, s2, self-hosting podcast, smart plug energy tracking, tailscalember, template sensor, tubesync, tuya, ultility sensor, youtube-dl alternative, z-wave
A lot is changing in Home Assistant land, and it's almost all for the better; we break down the essential items.
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54: Ultimate Off-Site Setup
September 25th, 2021 | 47 mins 38 secs
asrock rack e3c246d4u, asus hyper m.2 x16, autorestic, diy nest, generic thermostat, home assistant, igpu, ipmi, jupiter broadcasting, mesh vpn, minio, object storage, off-site backup, pcie bifurcation, restic, s3, self-hosting podcast, tailscale, trådfri, wireguard, zigbee
Alex is abroad and uses the opportunity to build out not one but two ultimate self-hosted off-site servers. We share the hardware, software, and networking details.
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53: Adventurous Build
September 10th, 2021 | 37 mins 16 secs
adventurous way, carp, color control gx, home automation, jupiter broadcasting, mqtt, node-red, pi-kvm, self-hosting podcast, smart home, sonoff, victron
We chat with Matt from Adventurous Way about the home automations that have improved his quality of life, the clever way he manages their off-grid rig, and the new smart home project he's just kicking off.
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52: Navigating DeGoogling
August 27th, 2021 | 41 mins 45 secs
apple maps privacy, docker wyze bridge, helios64, hls, jupiter broadcasting, kobol, lan mode, pikvm, rtmp, rtsp, self-hosting podcast, vaultwarden, wyze cameras
We report back on our DeGoogle challenge and read your top Google Alternative apps and services.
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51: Apple's Rotten Scanning
August 13th, 2021 | 53 mins 6 secs
1pasword, adblock, apple, bitwarden, brent gervais, csam, degoogle, fully kiosk browser, icloud, jupiter broadcasting, mobile internet, off-grid, pihole, raspberry pi, road tripping, rv, self-builde, self-host, self-hosting podcast, vaultwarden, wallpanel
We discuss the ramifications of Apple's local photo scanning announcement on your privacy, why everything seems to be a subscription these days, and a new challenge for the show.
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50: Perfect Plex Setup
July 30th, 2021 | 47 mins 28 secs
adb, amazon appstore, amazon fire toolbox, blue iris, camera system for a vacation house, datastream33, fire tablet home assistant, infuse no spoilers, jupiter broadcasting, mkdocs, moviematch, network ip cams, plex no spoilers script, plex-meta-manager, python, self-hosting podcast, shinobi, video management software, wallpanel, web based dashboard, wyze rtsp, xda forums
We discuss Chris's latest wall-mounted tablet solution for Home Assistant and several scripts to pimp your Plex setup.
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49: Update Roulette
July 16th, 2021 | 51 mins 20 secs
authelia, btrfs, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, mqtt, owntrack, proxmox, self-hosted single sign-on, self-hosting podcast, solar, valetudo, zfs
Updates gone wrong, surprise hardware failures, and flooding out all our electronics in a single go. We've got a lot to catch you up on.
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48: A Solution Looking for a Problem
July 2nd, 2021 | 36 mins 4 secs
apprise, docker, ezviz, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, mailrise, mergerfs, mergerfs-tools, pikvm, raspberry pi, self-hosting podcast, smart doorbell, tuya, vlans, wyze
Tuya shocks us by announcing native Home Assistant support, we have an update on a smart doorbell Ring alternative, and we tell all about how PiKVM just leveled up in awesome.
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47: Whose License Is It Anyway?
June 18th, 2021 | 42 mins 27 secs
ambee, chia coin, drive failure, esp web tools, esphome, frenck, home assistant, improv wi-fi, jupiter broadcasting, mergerfs, nat traversal, nixos, reproducible builds, rustdesk, self-hosted teamviewer alternative, self-hosting podcast, shucks.top, static homepage, tasmota, tinyhome
We take a look at a self-hosted TeamViewer alternative, give you our take on some Home Assistant drama and discuss the effects of a new crypto coin on hard drive prices.
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46: Pastebin Alternative
June 4th, 2021 | 42 mins 6 secs
ansible, comparing arrays, docker, easy self-hosted pastebin, exbin, foldersync, greyhole, jupiter broadcasting, loops, off-grid server, opnsense, peplink, perfect media server, self-hosted pastebin alternative, self-hosting podcast, solar power, victron, yaml
We'll share how we deployed a painless, Self-Hosted Pastebin replacement, and what we like the most about it.
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45: The Future of Home Assistant
May 21st, 2021 | 38 mins 20 secs
esphome, home assistant blue, home assistant founder interview, jupiter broadcasting, nabu casa, paulus schoutsen, self-hosting podcast
Join us for a chat with Paulus, the founder of Home Assistant, as we look to the project's future, hardware devices, new standards, and more.
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44: Plex Skeptics
May 7th, 2021 | 39 mins 39 secs
amazon fire tablet, borgbackup, ford, grafana, infuse, jupiter broadcasting, library management, lineageos, photosync, plex streaming search, plexamp, prometheus, self-hosting podcast, streaming fragmentation, vmware clusters
Plex announces some big plans that make us a little nervous, Alex solves Chris's tablet performance woes, and we chat about Prometheus.
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43: A New Solution for Backups
April 23rd, 2021 | 47 mins 45 secs
aldente, autorestic, battery life, blue iris, docker stats, ds1621+, home assistant automation, home solar, lithium ion lifepo4, restic, self-hosting podcast, synology review, zfs.rent
Alex has a new trick for local and remote backups, and shares his thoughts on Synology's DS series NAS.
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42: Don't Panic
April 9th, 2021 | 38 mins 19 secs
backdoor account, corsair fan control, gpu passthrough, homelab upgrades, jupiter broadcasting, nvidia, plausible analytics, self-hosted podcast, theorangeone, tt-rss, ubiquiti, whistleblower
A record is broken, a life goal is achieved, and why we are going long on Linksys.
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41: The One with Jeff Geerling
March 26th, 2021 | 33 mins 33 secs
esphome, home assistant, jeff geerling, jupiter broadcasting, megaraid, nabu casa, otto winter, pi 4 sata, raspberry pi cm4, raspberry pi compute module, raspberry pi raid, sas, self-hosted podcast
Special guest Jeff Geerling tells us how he got 16 drives connected to one Pi.
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40: Password Shaming
March 12th, 2021 | 40 mins 5 secs
babybuddy, backing up cloud servers, cloud backup, cookbook, have i been pwned, home assistant, jupiter broadcasting, k-anonymity, nextcloud, ovh data center, ovh fire, ovhcloud, plex, power consumption, self-hosted podcast, shelly, solar, strasbourg, tandoor recipes, tasmota, troy hunt, web file browser, wyze cam 3
We react to Home Assistant password shaming us and then reflect on the OVH fire while attempting to solve a "growing" cloud problem.